This new book by Alain Garay (Edwin Mellen, Lewiston [New York] 1999), a distinguished Paris attorney, is the first study of the organized anti-cult movements in France. It is devoted, in particular, to ADFI (Association pour la défense des familles et de l'individu) and CCMM (Centre contre les manipulations mentales), the largest French (and perhaps European) anti-cult organizations. Garay studies the sources of their power and influence on the media, mentioning their promotion of concepts such as brainwashing and mind control. He discusses how these groups enjoy in contemporary France an unparalleled degree of public support, and their crucial influence on French parliamentary anti-cult commissions and the recently established official Mission to Fight Cults. Émile Poulat, who may be described as the most authoritative historian of religion in France, is the author of the Introduction. The very fact that this valuable work did not find a publisher in France, and finally had to be published (in French) in the U.S. is in itself evidence of the power the anti-cult movements master today in France.